Representatives of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and the Montgomery County Planning Commission appeared before the supervisors to provide an overview of the U.S. 422 Corridor Master Plan. The corridor includes 24 municipalities in Berks, Chester and Montgomery counties. Leo Bagley, assistant director of the Montgomery County Planning Commission, said his agency had been working with the DVRPC and municipalities on the master plan for several years. Bagley said the possibility of making Route 422 a toll road was under consideration as a way to generate revenue for the area. He added that the county and regional planning commissions would be presenting information about the results of that study later in the year. Over the next several months, a team of traffic consultants would be modeling different scenarios to see what their potential effects might be, including whether tolls on Route 422 would be viable. While the study was expected to be completed by the end of the year, it will probably take several years to get through the process of actually turning the highway into a toll road. If it were to happen, it would be in the form of a high-speed system using E-ZPass.
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Posted on August 7, 2010
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